Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   Amen Architect Date:   2/3/2016 4:43:52 PM

Medicaid, not Medicare.  Remember that the states were supposed to put more money into Medicaid, but then states like Alabama refused to do so.

In principle, I agree with you that parents should be responsible for their kids education and activities. I used to hate it in VA because in the Fall, everyone would be bringing in catalogs of expensive but worthless crap that their kids had to sell, because the school required it.  And other places I worked, I would be acosted by some group or another selling CrispyCream donuts for this or that activity. 

But on the other hand, there are those kids whose family is poor or hardly exists, and those kids really need the promise of a free hot lunch, Head start or other things these programs, funded by taxpayers, provide for them.  I don't like welfare any more than you do fir the same reason - it makes people dependent and teaches them that they don't have to work - but those are adults and I hate for young kids for the sins of the adults.  I have empathy for those kids, becasue it is not their fault.